The head of a presidential super PAC supporting Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday on charges that he hid payments made to an ex-Iowa state senator during the 2012 presidential race. Jesse Benton -- who chaired the...

Ron Paul doesn't own RonPaul.com. Ron Paul wants RonPaul.com. Ron Paul isn't getting RonPaul.com. Paul has lost his World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) petition to get RonPaul.com from Paul supporters who run a fan site at the domain. Pau...

RonPaul.com is an exceedingly popular website dedicated to all things Ron Paul -- but Paul himself doesn't own it. Instead, it's registered to unknown Paul supporters who have run a fan site for the politician since 2007. Paul, meanwhile, has used Ca...

Libertarian icon Rand Paul, a U.S. Senator from Kentucky, has released through the Campaign for Liberty a four-page manifesto outlining his goals and ideas for regulating the Internet. Paul wants to make preserving the Internet along conservative pri...

Ron Paul may not be the most avid gamer -- but the leading libertarian certainly wouldn't want to stop you playing his character in an upcoming videogame from Texas-based programmer Daniel Williams. "Ron Paul: The Road to REVOLution" is a side-scroll...

President Obama's online efforts during his 2008 bid for the White House revolutionized digital campaigns -- and if Nielsen's latest numbers are any indication, his team is working hard for a repeat in 2012. According to a recent Nielsen analysis, Pr...

Today is Super Tuesday in the U.S., the day when the most delegates are up for grabs in a single 24-hour period during the entirety of the Republican presidential primary. Naturally, social media is abuzz with Super Tuesday tweets, pictures and video...

Today is Super Tuesday, the day when the most delegates are up for grabs in a single 24-hour period throughout the race to become the Republican presidential nominee. For weeks, Americans have been talking about the candidates on Facebook, Twitter, Y...

A federal judge turned down Ron Paul's campaign's request for information on a social media impostor last week. The campaign has been trying, without success, to expose the person who uploaded a YouTube video in Paul's name, that attacks former rival...

Thanks to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), lots of tech junkies have become politics junkies, too. For that reason, we decided to figure out which candidates got the most money from the technology industry in 2011. It's part of the Federal Election...

Just how crazy is Ron Paul? You can get your answer on a scale of "Kinda makes sense" to "Yeah, that's nuts," according to GQ.com's newest political feature. The digital barometer is part of GQ's ongoing coverage of the 2012 Presidential race, called...

Mitt Romney clinched the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night, falling in line with Twitter’s prediction that the former Massachusetts governor would be the Republican victor. Mashable recently reached out to Globalpoint Research to analyze Twitter se...

Although sales for Kelly Clarkson’s new album "Stronger" experienced a jump on Amazon last week following news that she endorsed GOP hopeful Ron Paul on Twitter, it wasn’t enough to help overall sales for the week. In fact, according to a Nielson Sou...

Ron Paul may be getting short shrift in the traditional media, but the congressman is head and heels above his fellow GOP hopefuls in the online world. With the Iowa Caucus done and settled, Paul came in third with 21.4% of the vote, behind both Mitt...

President Barack Obama may be down in the ratings, but he still has a steady hold on social media popularity. In December, Socialbakers – a social media analytics firm – tracked Facebook-page interactions of the eight key candidates from the Republic...

Can Twitter predict the outcome of the Iowa Caucus better than national polls? Mashable has partnered with Global Point Research to answer that question. According to the latest NBC News-Marist national poll, ex-Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has...

"Miss Independent" singer Kelly Clarkson endorsed GOP hopeful Ron Paul on her Twitter page earlier this week and it’s costing her the support of some of her long-time fans. But sales for Clarkson's album "Stronger" have skyrocketed since news of the ...

Forget the news and the polls - Attack Ad Generator is where you want to be over the next four days. The site lets you create your own attack ads by combining magnetic poetry with a baritone voice and imagery from the political season. The results ar...

Contrary to the popular belief of the Mashable editorial staff, I'm not a dyed in the wool Republican, so I'm not particularly excited about the Republican National Convention this year (particularly since Ron Paul is pledging to not bring the circus...

As of today, Tuesday June 3, 2008, the junior Senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, has secured the delegate count necessary to win the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States of America, making him the first black Democrat nomi...

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